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Clerk highlights digitization, property-fraud alerts and early voting uptake
Summary
The county clerk described expanded e-recording (81% of land-records recorded online), growth in property-fraud-alert enrollment (~14,000 subscribers, up 174%), and early-voting participation; clerks say improved online tools and recruitment efforts are supporting elections operations.
The county clerk presented an annual report emphasizing increased online services for vital records and land records, programmatic fraud-alert expansions, and election preparations.
The clerk described technology changes that allow customers to order marriage, birth and death records online and said roughly 81% of land-record documents are now recorded electronically. He urged property owners to join the property-fraud-alert system, saying: "We have a little over 14,000 people on the property fraud alert system." The clerk noted a 174% increase in enrollment over the prior reporting period and said electronic return of paper originals has saved postage costs.
On elections, the clerk said early voting was underway and noted about 380 early voters observed that day; the office has been recruiting election workers and introduced online tools for favorites and ballot navigation. Commissioners praised the fraud-alert program as a consumer protection measure and encouraged homeowners to enroll.
